GOP Rep. pitches LGBTQ rights bill with religious exemptions

Associated Press ^ | December 6, 2019 | Elana Schor

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As Democrats champion anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community and Republicans counter with worries about safeguarding religious freedom, one congressional Republican is offering a proposal on Friday that aims to achieve both goals.

The bill that Utah GOP Rep. Chris Stewart plans to unveil would shield LGBTQ individuals from discrimination in employment, housing, education, and other public services — while also carving out exemptions for religious organizations to act based on beliefs that may exclude those of different sexual orientations or gender identities.

Stewart’s bill counts support from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but it has yet to win a backer among House Democrats who unanimously supported a more expansive LGBTQ rights measure in May.

But the uphill climb for his plan doesn’t daunt Stewart, who sees the bill as a way to “bridge that gap” between preventing discrimination and allowing religion to inform individual decisions. …

[Zathras]

UT again...

[ChicagoConservative27]

Enough with the pandering and the identity politics.

[a fool in paradise]

Incrementalism.

The so called ‘equality acts’ are not. Homofascists are decidedly anti-Christian. Theirs is a political agenda, not a sexual one.

Feminazis also seek supremacy, not equailty.

[eyeamok]

Shouldn't men People that Self Identify as Child Rapist's or Deviant Murderer's be protected against discrimination too??

[Rurudyne]

Restore homosexual acts to illegal status just as they should have always remained.

[PGalt]

The ATTACK on this great republic continues. Thanks for the post and identifying tthe perps. HOORAY Elana Schor.

[relictele]

I usually don’t go for the juvenile or vulgar but I’m short on time:

Sticking your ding-ding into the wrong knothole in the fence does not, can not and should not confer rights.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Thanks, Utah Morons.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Feminazis also seek supremacy, not equality.
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So do Islamists.

It will be entertaining when they hit the inevitable loggerheads.

[DouglasKC]

No. Just no. Codify this ONE bit and our religious liberties will practically disappear overnight.

[V V Camp Enari 67-68]

These deviants are a very, very minor portion of our population. Government officials should stop the incessant pandering of these fringe people of perversion and concentrate on the vast numbers of moral people in our country.

[lastchance]

No bill. I can safely say that any exemptions for religious freedom will be whittled away or outright struck down by some judge. So no bill.

[abclily]

If the homos would shut up for a while, they might realize that most people don’t care what they do with their body parts.

[John O]

while also carving out exemptions for religious organizations to act based on beliefs that may exclude those of different sexual orientations or gender identities.

If it doesn't carve out exemptions for religious INDIVIDUALS then it is just another step down the slippery slope.

Every law that prohibits the private individual from discriminating however he pleases is unconstitutional (violates the first amendment freedom of assembly)

[Midwesterner53]

Can government ever get out of the way???????

[backwoods-engineer]

It’s a TRAP!

[Nifster]

Such insanity

[Nifster]

Show me the numbers for the supposed discrimination

[Nifster]

You come in for employment tatted up with piercings and gauges with multicolored hair...you ain’t getting hired no matter your orientation. You scare my customers